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I never live with balance
I always wake up nervous Light comes at me sideways I hold my breath forever I never live with balance Though I've always liked the notion I feel that endless hunger For energy and motion Open Open Open I never live with balance I wanna feel you near me There's an aching in my hipbone Wanna let my heart drop open It's daylight in the city There's thumping in the stairwell Kundalini sunrise A clamoring of church bells Open Open Open You like to let me worry But I don't take you for granted Come over here and kiss me I'm savoring your picture The street is filled with noises Life going up and down Light comes at you sideways Enfolds you like a gown Open Open Open Open Open Open |
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Picture on magazine boardroom pop star
Pinstripe prophet of peckerhead greed You say 'Trust me with the money -- the keys to the universe' Trickle down will give us everything we need Brand new century private penitentiary bank vault utopia padded for the few And it's tumours for the masses coughing for the masses Earphones for the masses and they all serve you Trickle down give /em the business Trickle down supposed to give us the goods Cups held out to catch a bit of the bounty Trickle down everywhere trickle down blood What used to pass for education now looks more like ignoration Take the people's money and slip it to the corporation Yellow rain golden shower pesticide firepower Summon feudal demons of sweatshop subjugation Workfare foul air homeless beggars everywhere Picturephone aristocrats lounge around the pool Captains of industry smiling beneficently Leaking hole supertanker ship of fools Trickle down give me the business Trickle down supposed to give us the goods Cups held out to catch a bit of the bounty Trickle down everywhere trickle down blood Take over takedown big bucks shakedown Schoolyard pusher offer anything-for-profit First got to privatize then you get to piratize Hooked on avarice- how do we get off it? Trickle down give me the business Trickle down supposed to give us the goods Cups held out to catch a bit of the bounty Trickle down everywhere trickle down blood Trickle down give me the business Trickle down supposed to give us the goods Cups held out to catch a bit of the bounty Trickle down everywhere trickle down blood Trickle down |
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Moon of plenty, moon of mischance
It'll be what you want but you can't stop the dance Try to count the steps and they change while you stare And the translucent moon floats in waves of blue air And we cry out for grace to lay truth bare The dance is the truth and it's everywhere Pas de deux in stark silhouette pulsing against a clear orange sunset As the distance shifts from skin unto skin Look at how bodies shape the spaces they're in See the limbs slide smooth through unresisting air The dance is the truth and it's everywhere In grains of sand and Galaxies In plasma flow and rain in trees In the sepia swell of silted-up surf In the ebb and the flow of dying and birth In wounded streets and whispered prayer The dance is the truth and it's everywhere |
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As I stare into the flames
filled up with feelings I can't name Images of life appear -- regret and anger, love and fear Dark things drift across the screen of mine behind whose veil are seen love's ferocious eyes, and clear the words come flying to my ear Go on -- put it in your heart -- Put it in your heart Terrible deeds done in the name of tunnel vision and fear of change surely are expressions of a soul that's turned its back on love All the sirens all the tongues The song of air in every lung Heaven's perfect alchemy put me with you and you with me Come on -- put that in your heart Come on, put it in your heart All the sirens all the tongues The song of air in every lung Heaven's perfect alchemy Put me with you and you with me Come on, put it in your heart Come on, put it in your heart |
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Wild things are prowling - storm winds are howling tonight
Everything's transforming into pure crystals of light The heart is a mirror; it throws back the blaze of love Bathed in that glow it's no secret what I'm thinking of I want to wait no more Wait no more Wait no more Sipping wine with angels in this torch-lit tavern by the sea What does it take for what's locked up inside to be free? Fold me into you, you know where I'm dying to be When my ship sets sail on that ocean of deep mystery I want to wait no more Wait no more Wait no more What does it take for the heart to explode into stars? One day we'll wake to remember how lovely we are Lightning's a kiss that lands hot on the loins of the sky Something uncoils at the base of my spine and I cry I want to wait no more Wait no more Wait no more |
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Here comes those silver celestial horses
Rays of the moon in the mountain air I'm steeped in the steam of the last wild hot spring Maybe I'm melting but I don't care There's darkness in the canyon But the Light comes pounding through For me and for you Tomorrow may be a hissing blowtorch Maybe a silken sky shaken by the wind The world's in the wake of those whispering horses But there's always a pillar of cloud on the valley's rim There's darkness in the canyon But the Light comes pounding through For me and for you Still river full of the depths of the candles Burning for the free ones riding on the other shore Even at the heart of these breathing shadows You can feel us gathering at the door There's darkness in the canyon But the Light comes pounding through For me and for you For me and for you |
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Nobody's making me say this
I'm talking to you Been travelþing 17 hours Irradiated by signals, by images of viruses, of virtues like everyone Like exiled angels we swing out of the clouds Above night city- Fields of light broken by the curve of dark waterways On the other side of the world an unhappy teenage girl sets fire to herself, her house, her neighbourhood and some that dwell therein Sorry simulacrum of sad dawn You've never seen everything Sleep of the just, sleep of reason, any damn kind of sleep please! I'm trying to balance on a sloping bed in Naples or is it Skopje? I forget Through the thin hotel wall a man groans in his dreams And on the other side of the world the drug squad busts a child's birthday party Puts bullets in the family dog and the blood goes all over the baby And the Mounties are strip-searching schoolgirls because they can And a car crashes and burns on an offramp from the Gardiner Two dogs in the back seat die, and in the front a man and his mother Forensics reveals the lady has pitchfork wounds in her chest - Pitchfork! And that the same or a similar instrument has been screwed to the dash to make sure the driver goes too You've never seen everything I see: A leader of the people with a ring in his nose And the leaders of business tell him which way to go With tugs on the golden chain which once led the golden calf And we're supposed to be impressed with their success But my mind goes blank before the unbelievable indifference shown life spirit the future anything green anything just Bad pressure coming down Tears - what we really traffic in ride the ribbon of shadow Never feel the light falling all around Years ago when my brother was in India A small town baker got a bright idea He cut his flour with pesticide and sent a bunch of neighbours on their longest journey He was just being cheap -trying to make a profit Didn't even have shareholders to answer to But it's worth remembering, as we sell off the forest gene-splice the world's food into an instrument of control maim and destroy as acts of theatre, what came next - That when the survivors looked around and understood what had been done they butchered that baker Snow swirls in the parking lot light like flour like pesticide There's a trade war brewing - or at least that's the face they paint on it But it's only more transnational manipulation It's all bad magic and gangrene politics Hormone disruptors and carcinogenetics Greed twists eternal in the human breast But the market has no brain It doesn't love it's not God All it knows is the price of lunch Here I sit Staring at my own shadow Feeling my blood move Trying not to have a drink Trying to find somewhere to put the rage I'm carrying Bad pressure coming down Tears - what we really traffic in ride the ribbon of shadow Never feel the light falling all around Never feel the light falling all around You've never seen everything |
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Amid the rumours and the expectations
and all the stories dreamt and lived Amid the clangour and the dislocation and things to fear and to forgive Don't forget about delight Y know what I'm saying to you Don't forget about delight Y know Amid the post-ironic postulating and the poets' pilfered rhymes Meaning feels like it's evaporating Out of sight and out of mind Don't forget about delight Y know what I'm saying to you Don't forget about delight Y know Though you find yourself alone and stranded with no friend to take your side On the endless road afoot and empty-handed where the wild-eyed Cossacks ride Don't forget about delight Y know what I'm saying to you Don't forget about delight Y know Spring birds peck among the pressed-down grasses Clouds like zeppelins cross the sky Anger drips and pools and then it passes And I say a prayer that I Don't forget about delight Y know what I'm saying to you Don't forget about delight Y know |
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In a horse-powered sleigh at the top of the town
Sun coming up paints the snow all around with rose light In front of the house where I'm supposed to be born I don't think I'm ready to walk through that door just yet To be one more voice in the human choir Rising like smoke from the mystical fire of the heart The wind that blows through everything Sweeps out the halls of my heart when I sing to you It carries the moon and the stars and the rain Carries the seagulls and carries my shame away Spins me around, stops me running away From all the things I've been waiting to say But don't Here Is bigger than you can imagine Now Is forever Sun coming up paints the snow all around Rose on the roofs and the trees and the ground And the stream In my dream Messenger wind swooping out of the sky Lights each tiny speck in my human kaleidoscope With hope |
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